Professional Development Library

Bullying is a topic that must be addressed. In the early years, it’s important to think in terms of preventing bullying, which involves early childhood teachers and programs supporting children’s social and emotional development. This kit contains seven essential books, posters, and DVDs all focused on using guidance to teach and foster social-emotional skills like cooperation and problem solving. Positive guidance strategies support positive behavior and prevent problems. The kit also includes books and other resources that provide ideas and strategies proven to work for children with the most challenging behaviors and to benefit every child in your setting. 

The kit includes:

• The Power of Guidance: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Classroom
• Meeting the Challenge: Effective Strategies for Challenging Behaviours in Early Childhood Environment
• Essential Touch: Meeting the Needs of Young Childre
• Young Children Journal – July 2011: Behaviors that Still Challenge Children and Adult
• Facing the Challenge: Working with Children Who Use Challenging Behaviors (2-DVD Set)
• How Do You Feel? (18”x24” poster, laminated)
• Tips for Talking with Children (12”x36” poster, laminated)

A $250 value if purchased separately. 

The third edition of this perennial favorite provides new research-based strategies to help preservice and practicing teachers understand, prevent, and respond effectively to challenging behaviors. Useful for primary, preschool, and child care educators, this book includes practical tips for responding to children’s needs and helping them know what’s expected. Includes new material on inclusion, autism, culture, and dual-language learning. From Pearson.

This instructional, interactive DVD includes 28 video clips of varying lengths captured in actual early childhood classrooms. The clips are divided into six instructional categories: Prevention in Action, Positive Guidance in Action, Learning Opportunities, Developing Observation Skills, Case Study: Pre-Intervention, and Case Study: Intervention. A 60-page Trainer Guide is included on the disc, with suggestions for using each video clip in training, leading group discussions, and conducting small-group activities. 40 min. From the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative and Video Active Productions.

Facing the Challenge is an instructional, interactive DVD video developed by the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative (DECI) and Video Active Productions in partnership with NAEYC. Training and documentary material help teachers learn how to prevent children’s use of difficult behaviors and develop intervention strategies to work with children who use challenging behaviors to meet their needs.

Disc 1:

• What is challenging behavior?
• Developmentally appropriate behavior
• Why do kids misbehave?
• Parents as partners
• Skill Development Study #1

Discs are available separately, or as a 2-DVD set. Disc 1: #8014; Disc 2: #8015; 2-DVD set: #8016.